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Cal's VR Coding & Graphic Design Hackathon

VRHack@Cal is a Coding and Graphic Design Competition that aims to bring together the brightest minds from Berkeley, Stanford and many other bay area schools. With a goal to create more new ideas and at the same time give students immersive experience and education about Virtual Reality, we plan to organize speaker event and virtual reality hackathon in this one day event. This is a wonderful opportunity for attendees to meet with other VR engineers, companies, and learn about front-end VR software and hardware technology by interacting with leaders in the industry.

Note that judging will award far more points to teams that actually create a real VR application with source code.

Every team will also be responsible for submitting a powerpoint describing their application and its relevance to education, as well as a YouTube video talking over this powerpoint or showcasing the application.

How to enter

Judges

Tim KanellitsasMarketing & Education Producer at UploadVR

Ed OwPresident of Fulldive

Amanda WidjajaData Engineer at Oculus

Mark PiszczorOccipital

Andy Jevsevar

Soh Tanaka

Judging Criteria

Coding Complexity
How complex is your application? If you wrote code and have a working VR app, you will likely score full points for this section. Judges will also account for how thorough and detailed graphic designs appear.

Creativity
Applications that showcase virtual reality in a unique an interesting way will be rewarded with more points.

Relevance to Education
The theme of this hackathon is education so make sure your application is at least somewhat related.

Market Feasibility
How good of an idea is the application. If judges can see many people using this application, more points will be rewarded.

X-Factor
Up to judges discretion how they want to allot these points.

Graphic Design
How thorough is the graphic design? Are there wireframes and a clear walkthrough of the User Interface? Does the user experience make sense? Is it intuitive?